Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre ticket and the babysitter were worth it.

To make a great film, you need three things: the script, the script and the script.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Television has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.

I don't say all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since then.

The ideal actor is a man who is a child, a woman who is a child, and an animal who is a child.

I am scared of the police. I am scared of the dark. I am scared of being alone. I am scared of being in a crowd.

I like stories where the hero is in danger, and the audience is in suspense.

I try to get the audience to participate in the film, to be frightened, to be excited, to be amused.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.